Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Engel, Sigmund Z.

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

23.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks